The New York hipster magazine Vice posted a video on YouTube of
what the magazine said was McAfee's arrest in downtown Guatemala
City, but McAfee spent more time talking to the camera, smoking
cigarettes and playing a wooden flute than interacting with the
police. He was finally driven off in an extended-cab pickup
truck.

"They're trying to arrest me for coming into the country
illegally, but you know that this is really a move to keep me
from doing my press conference," McAfee told the camera before
being taken away.

"I just spoke with the duty officer at the [American] Embassy who
said there is nothing that they can do," McAfee blogged late yesterday.

McAfee, who fled his beachfront home after the killing of his
American neighbor, secretly crossed into Guatemala over the
weekend with the apparent assistance of two reporters from Vice.

Belizean authorities insist that McAfee is merely a person of
interest, and say they have not issued a warrant for his arrest.
In telephone calls to American reporters and in numerous blog
postings, McAfee has said the Belizean authorities plan to kill
him.

Vice on Monday posted a photo of one of its reporters with McAfee
at an undisclosed location under the headline "We Are with John
McAfee Right Now, Suckers."

On Tuesday, McAfee announced that he had retained the services of
whom Vice called "the best lawyer in the country," who also
happened to be the uncle of McAfee's 20-year-old girlfriend, and
said he would seek political asylum.

He also announced then that he had scheduled a press conference
for today. Following his arrest, he said he was still confident
it would happen.

"I believe, by the way, that blogging from a jail cell might be a
groundbreaking activity," McAfee added. "Let's see if it catches
on."

UPDATE: ABC News reporter Matt Gutman tweeted
Thursday afternoon that McAfee was rushed to a local hospital
after having complained of chest pains.

"John McAfee being taken to hospital in Guatemala," Gutman
tweeted, attaching a photo of an ambulance
interior, with someone who appeared to be McAfee on a
stretcher. "Local press is crazy here, now in a high speed
chase after ambulance."

The medical episode followed McAfee's most recent blog posting,
in which he urged readers to email and tweet the
president of Guatemala on his behalf.

After the ambulance had reached the hospital, Gutman tweeted
again.

"McAfee appeared unresponsive," Gutman said, attaching a photo showing McAfee wearing a
blue button-down shirt and a charcoal tweed blazer. "But when
nurses undressed him, he said quite clearly, 'Please, not in
front of the press.'"